diff --git a/bootstrap.xml b/bootstrap.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5699b68a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bootstrap.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<project name="bootstrap" default="-extract-ooo-build">
+  <!--
+       Pulls in ooo-build from our maven repository to make our base build system available.
+       From http://ooo-maven.googlecode.com/hg/etc/bootstrap.xml
+
+       To use, copy this file into your project's directory and add
+
+       <property name="ooo-build.vers" value="1.3"/>
+       <ant antfile="bootstrap.xml"/>
+       <import file="${user.home}/.m2/ooo-build/${ooo-build.vers}/ooo-build.xml"/>
+
+       to the top level of your build.xml.  Then you can depend on -init-ooo in your lowest level
+       target and pick up all the standard ooo ant tasks and macros.
+  -->
+
+  <property name="maven.dir" value="${user.home}/.m2"/>
+  <property name="ooo-build.path"
+    value="com/threerings/ooo-build/${ooo-build.vers}"/>
+  <property name="ooo-build.jar"
+    value="ooo-build-${ooo-build.vers}.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooo-build.local.dir" value="${maven.dir}/repository/${ooo-build.path}"/>
+  <property name="ooo-build.local.file" value="${ooo-build.local.dir}/${ooo-build.jar}"/>
+  <condition property="ooo-build.exists"><available file="${ooo-build.local.file}"/></condition>
+  <target name="-download-ooo-build" unless="ooo-build.exists">
+    <mkdir dir="${ooo-build.local.dir}"/>
+    <get src="http://ooo-maven.googlecode.com/hg/repository/${ooo-build.path}/${ooo-build.jar}"
+      dest="${ooo-build.local.file}" usetimestamp="true"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <property name="ooo-build.dir" value="${maven.dir}/ooo-build/${ooo-build.vers}"/>
+  <condition property="extracted.exists"><available file="${ooo-build.dir}/ooo-build.xml"/></condition>
+  <target name="-extract-ooo-build" depends="-download-ooo-build" unless="extracted.exists">
+    <mkdir dir="${ooo-build.dir}"/>
+    <unjar src="${ooo-build.local.file}" dest="${ooo-build.dir}"/>
+  </target>
+</project>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 709f62f7..7c7dfa13 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -6,36 +6,21 @@
   <property name="classes.dir" value="${deploy.dir}/classes"/>
   <property name="tclasses.dir" value="${deploy.dir}/test-classes"/>
   <property name="javadoc.dir" value="${deploy.dir}/docs"/>
-  <property name="gwtjar.dir"  value="${deploy.dir}/gwt-jar"/>
 
-  <property name="maven-ant.vers" value="2.1.1"/>
-  <property name="maven-ant.dir" value="${user.home}/.m2/ant-support"/>
-  <property name="maven-ant.jar" value="${maven-ant.dir}/maven-ant-tasks-${maven-ant.vers}.jar"/>
-  <property name="maven-ant.url"
-            value="http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/apache/maven/binaries"/>
-  <condition property="maven-ant.exists"><available file="${maven-ant.jar}"/></condition>
-  <target name="-download-maven-ant" unless="maven-ant.exists">
-    <mkdir dir="${maven-ant.dir}"/>
-    <get src="${maven-ant.url}/maven-ant-tasks-${maven-ant.vers}.jar"
-         dest="${maven-ant.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
-  </target>
+  <property name="ooo-build.vers" value="2.1"/>
+  <ant antfile="bootstrap.xml"/>
+  <import file="${user.home}/.m2/ooo-build/${ooo-build.vers}/ooo-build.xml"/>
 
-  <target name="-init-maven-ant" depends="-download-maven-ant">
-    <taskdef resource="org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/antlib.xml"
-             uri="urn:maven-artifact-ant" classpath="${maven-ant.jar}"/>
-    <artifact:pom id="pom" file="pom.xml"/>
-    <artifact:dependencies pathId="classpath" pomRefId="pom"/>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="-prepare" depends="-init-maven-ant">
+  <target name="-prepare" depends="-init-contrib">
     <mkdir dir="${deploy.dir}"/>
+    <mavendep pom="pom.xml" scope="compile"/>
+    <mavendep pom="pom.xml" id="test" scope="test"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="clean" description="Cleans out compiled classes and docs.">
     <delete dir="${classes.dir}"/>
     <delete dir="${tclasses.dir}"/>
     <delete dir="${deploy.dir}/docs"/>
-    <delete dir="${gwtjar.dir}"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="distclean" description="Cleans out all build resultss.">
@@ -45,26 +30,17 @@
   <target name="compile" depends="-prepare" description="Compiles main and test sources.">
     <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
     <copy todir="${classes.dir}"><fileset dir="src/main/resources" includes="**"/></copy>
-    <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}" includeAntRuntime="false"
-           debug="on" optimize="${build.optimize}" source="1.5" target="1.5" encoding="utf-8">
-      <classpath refid="classpath"/>
-      <compilerarg value="-Xlint"/>
-      <compilerarg value="-Xlint:-serial"/>
-      <compilerarg value="-Xlint:-path"/>
-    </javac>
+    <ooojavac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}" version="1.5"
+        classpathref="pom.xml.path"/>
 
     <mkdir dir="${tclasses.dir}"/>
     <copy todir="${tclasses.dir}"><fileset dir="src/test/resources" includes="**"/></copy>
-    <javac srcdir="${test.dir}" destdir="${tclasses.dir}" includeAntRuntime="false"
-           debug="on" optimize="${build.optimize}" source="1.5" target="1.5" encoding="utf-8">
-      <classpath>
-        <path refid="classpath"/>
-        <pathelement location="${classes.dir}"/>
-      </classpath>
-      <compilerarg value="-Xlint"/>
-      <compilerarg value="-Xlint:-serial"/>
-      <compilerarg value="-Xlint:-path"/>
-    </javac>
+    <path id="built.classpath">
+      <path refid="test.path"/>
+      <pathelement location="${classes.dir}"/>
+    </path>
+    <ooojavac srcdir="${test.dir}" destdir="${tclasses.dir}" version="1.5"
+        classpathref="built.classpath"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="javadoc" depends="-prepare" description="Builds javadocs.">
@@ -87,14 +63,14 @@
   <property name="test" value=""/>
   <target name="tests" depends="compile"
           description="Runs unit tests. Use -Dtest=Foo to run only FooTest.">
-    <taskdef name="unit" classpathref="classpath"
+    <taskdef name="unit" classpathref="test.path"
       classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask"/>
     <mkdir dir="${deploy.dir}/test-reports"/>
     <unit printsummary="off" haltonfailure="yes" fork="${junit.fork}">
       <classpath>
         <pathelement location="${classes.dir}"/>
         <pathelement location="${tclasses.dir}"/>
-        <path refid="classpath"/>
+        <path refid="built.classpath"/>
         <fileset dir="lib/test" includes="*.jar"/>
       </classpath>
       <sysproperty key="test_dir" value="${tclasses.dir}"/>
@@ -117,14 +93,8 @@
     <jar destfile="${deploy.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" basedir="${classes.dir}"/>
   </target>
 
-  <property name="maven.deploy.repo" value="file://${user.home}/.m2/repository"/>
   <target name="maven-deploy" depends="dist"
           description="Deploys our build artifacts to a Maven repository.">
-    <jar basedir="${src.dir}" destfile="${deploy.dir}/${ant.project.name}-sources.jar"/>
-    <artifact:deploy file="${deploy.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" uniqueVersion="false">
-      <remoteRepository url="${maven.deploy.repo}"/>
-      <pom refid="pom"/>
-      <attach file="${deploy.dir}/${ant.project.name}-sources.jar" classifier="sources"/>
-    </artifact:deploy>
+    <mavendeploy pom="pom.xml" srcdir="${src.dir}"/>
   </target>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 239869f7..9414cad6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
         <exclusion><groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId><artifactId>jmxri</artifactId></exclusion>
         <exclusion><groupId>oro</groupId><artifactId>oro</artifactId></exclusion>
         <exclusion><groupId>junit</groupId><artifactId>junit</artifactId></exclusion>
-      </exclusions> 
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion><groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId></exclusion>
-      </exclusions> 
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>